Relationships

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new."

(Ursula K. Le Guin)

"What most of us are waiting for is someone else to really think you’re okay with all your warts, just the way you are." - Charlotte Joko Beck

I think a perfect relationship is a really, really good conversation that keeps on going for your entire life

Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.

ritualized, compulsive self-disclosure is not intimacy

it’s often a defense mechanism, one that masquerades as vulnerability but actually kills erotic charge, polarity, and mystery

shared experience, unspoken tension, and real-time attunement are the components of intimacy

Wanting to be enough for someone else is self-abandonment.